@article{icrisat4580, title = {Phosphate sorption in benchmark Vertisol and Alfisol profiles. }, publisher = {Indian Sociely of Soil Science}, author = {K L Sahrawat}, pages = {144--146}, year = {1999}, volume = {47}, journal = {Journal of the Indian Sociely of Soil Science}, number = {1}, url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/4580/}, abstract = {The response of crops to added P is generally less predictable on Vertisols than on other soils such as Alfisols under similar agroclimatic conditions. The cause of low P responses to applied P in Vertisols is not known but is often attributed to sorption of phosphate (Murthy 1988). However, recent work on the behaviour of P in Indian Vertisols indicate that the Vertisols} }